Soap receptacle



D 1936- J. L. FINE 2,065,799

SOAP RECEPTACLE Filed June 19, 1936 Patented Dec. 29, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE A 2 Claims.

My invention relates to holders for soap or other materials, especially adapted for use in connection with scrubbing pails, wash basins, tubs and the like.

One object of my invention is to provide a holder of the type referred to, of such form that it can conveniently be attached to a bucket or other receptacle, in such manner that it may be swung from a position inside the receptacle to a posi- 10 tion outside thereof, and of such form that it can be utilized as a holder, in either its inner or outer position.

Another object of my invention is to provide a holder of generally simplified and improved form.

5 In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a bucket with the holder attached thereto, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged view taken on the line IIII of Fig. l.

A bucket to which the holder is attached is represented by the numeral 3 and may be of various well-known forms. The holder will ordinarily be employed for scrubbing soap, sponges, scrubbing brushes, or other materials, and is shown as of mesh or grid-like form, but it can be made of sheet metal or other materials. The holder 4 has walls 5 and 6 disposed in planes which are at right angles to one another, and formed. of wires which are held in unitary relation by welding or twisting them together.

3 The numerals I represent hanger bars which may be simply extensions or continuations of wires which enter into the structure of the body of the holder, or may be separately formed and connected to the body portion of the holder by 35 welding or suitable twisted connections. End walls of the holder are formed by pairs of wires 8 which are connected to the hangers I and the wall 6.

The upper ends of the hangers I are bent to 40 loop form at 9 and extend through holes formed in the bucket 3 near the rim or upper edge thereof. The loops 9' serve as pivotal connections between the holder and the bucket.

The holder can be swung from its position in- 45 side the bucket to a position outside thereof,

which latter position is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2. When the holder is inside the bucket, the wall 5 thereof will serve as the bottom of the holder, while when the holder is in its outer position, the wall 6 will serve as the bottom thereof and the wall 5 will serve as a side wall. The free edge of the wall 5 is of convex form so that it will approximately conform to the contour of the inner wall of the bucket and rest snugly against 55 the same, while the free edge 01' the wall 6 is of concave form so that it will conform more or less closely to the outer side of the bucket.

When the holder is at its inner position, it will hold soap, sponges or other materials convenient to the hands of the user, and furthermore, any water drippings therefrom will be within the bucket. When the holder is in its exterior position as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, it can likewise be used to support scrubbing materials etc.

The holder can be attached permanently to the 10 bucket by having the loops 9 bent to complete circles and the extremities of the wires 9 twisted around the straight portions thereof, or the bends 9 need not be formed into completely closed loops, in which latter case the holder can be conveniently detached from the bucket. The presence of the holder on the bucket will not prevent nesting of a number of buckets for shipment or storage, since when the holders of a number of buckets are in their exterior positions, the buckets can be nested, the holders being tiltable if necessary, in order to permit of efiective nesting of the buckets, even where their shapes are such as to allow them to telescope with one another through nearly their entire lengths. The side of the bucket will serve as a third wall for the holder when the holder is in its inner or outer position.

In addition to the advantage of positioning the holder so that the soap or other materials is conveniently available to the user, and to the advantage of having the drippings from the soap fall into the bucket when the holder is in its inner position, the soap is supported above the water in the bucket, and at the same time need not be placed on the floor where it might tend. to mar paint or be in the way, or out of convenient access to the user.

I claim as my invention:

1. A holder comprising two sides connected at their adjacent edges, in right-angular relationship, hanger bars connected to one of the sides, at its corners which are remote from said ad.- J'acent edges, the hanger bars being disposed substantially in parallelism with the other side, and means for pivotally connecting the hanger bars to the edge of a receptacle, the parts being so arranged that when the holder is within the receptacle, one side will serve as a bottom for the holder and the other side extend upwardly therefrom to form a side wall therefor, and when in position outside of the receptacle, the last-named side will serve as a bottom wall for the holder and the first-named side as a side wall therefor, the side of the receptacle serving as a third wall for 55 the holder when the holder is in either its inner or outer position.

2. A holder comprising two sides connected at their adjacent edges, in right-angular relationship, hanger bars connected to one of the sides, at its corners which are remote from said adjacent edges, the hanger bars being disposed substantially in parallelism with the other side, a cross bar connecting each end of said other side to one of the hanger bars, at points remote from the plane of said one side, and means for pivotally connecting the hanger bars to the edge of a receptacle, the parts being so arranged that when the holder is within the receptacle, one side will serve as a bottom for the holder and the other side extend upwardly therefrom to form a side Wall therefor, and when in position outside of the receptacle, the last-named side will serve as a bottom wall for the holder and the firstnamed side as a side wall therefor, the side of the receptacle serving as a third wall for the holder when the holder is in either its inner or 10 outer position.

JOSEPH L. FINE. 

